Oct. 14, 2025 5 AM PT
To the editor: In his try to save lots of the MAGA coalition, contributing author Josh Hammer refuses to acknowledge that this motion has all the time had an underbelly of racism and antisemitism (“Provocateurs are trying to use antisemitism to splinter the MAGA coalition,” Oct. 10). How shortly he erases the tiki-torch bearers of Nazi and accomplice flags at Charlottesville, Va., chanting “Jews won’t exchange us.”
The management we received in response to that day from the chief of the MAGA motion was there “have been very positive individuals, on either side.” No condemnation of antisemitism was uttered from President Trump in those remarks.
Trump is aware of that there’s a sizable quantity of racists on this nation and plenty of of them make up his base. He has regularly trafficked in racist, divisive tropes. Being towards variety, fairness and inclusion might not seem racist to Hammer. However to many within the MAGA motion, it’s a name to arms to take America to the Nineteen Fifties, the place advantage was a white male first amongst equals.
While you lock arms with the MAGA motion, you lock arms with the conspiracists that our president raises up and locations in our authorities. Hammer ought to perceive that MAGA might come for Jews some day quickly, because the Republican Social gathering has a historical past of counting on the white supremacist wing as a dependable silent accomplice in election politics. The issue with the beast of white supremacy is while you invite it to dinner, it normally consumes all of the friends.
Rene Childress, View Park
